Working on a laptop, no power to anything.

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited February 2005 in Hardware
Someone gave me a laptop to try and fix for them. It's an IBM Thinkpad A30. A rather big and bulky laptop that I'd never want for myself.

He said that one day the computer worked fine, and the next day it wouldn't turn on. I tried it on both battery power and with the A/C adapter in place. I get nothing at all. Are there any fuses in it anywhere?

Any ideas on where I should look first for problems? I know this leaves a lot of possibilities open, but I hope someone can tell me something useful.

It has Windows XP on it.

Comments

  • maxanonmaxanon Montreal
    edited February 2005
    Did you try to pull the battery out and in? IBM's batteries tend to die.
  • pokesquid808pokesquid808 SO CAL
    edited February 2005
    you could try a reset. take out the battery and unplug from power. then hold down the power button for 10 seconds. then plug the power back in and turn it on. don't put back the battery. see if that helps
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